The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman write by Todd M. Endelman. This book was released on 2022-09-06. The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Redcliffe Salaman (1874–1955) was an English Jew of many facets: a country gentleman, a physician, a biologist who pioneered the breeding of blight-free strains of potatoes, a Jewish nationalist, and a race scientist. A well-known figure in his own time, The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman restores him to his place in the history of British science and the British Jewish community. Redcliffe Salaman was also a leading figure in the Anglo-Jewish community in the 20th century. At the same time, he was also an incisive critic of the changing character of that community. His groundbreaking book, The History and Social Influence of the Potato, first published in 1949 and in print ever since, is a classic in social history. His wife Nina was a feminist, poet, essayist, and translator of medieval Hebrew poetry. She was the first (and to this day, only) woman to deliver a sermon in an Orthodox synagogue in Britain. The Last-Anglo Jewish Gentleman offers a compelling biography of a unique individual. It also provides insights into the life of English Jews during the late-19th and early-20th centuries and brings to light largely unknown controversies and tensions in Jewish life.
On the Word of a Jew
On the Word of a Jew - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Word of a Jew write by Nina Caputo. This book was released on 2019-01-14. On the Word of a Jew available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fourteen essays examining the dynamics of trust and mistrust in Jewish history from biblical times to today. What, if anything, does religion have to do with how reliable we perceive one another to be? When and how did religious difference matter in the past when it came to trusting the word of another? In today’s world, we take for granted that being Jewish should not matter when it comes to acting or engaging in the public realm, but this was not always the case. The essays in this volume look at how and when Jews were recognized as reliable and trustworthy in the areas of jurisprudence, medicine, politics, academia, culture, business, and finance. As they explore issues of trust and mistrust, the authors reveal how caricatures of Jews move through religious, political, and legal systems. While the volume is framed as an exploration of Jewish and Christian relations, it grapples with perceptions of Jews and Jewishness from the biblical period to today, from the Middle East to North America, and in Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions. Taken together these essays reflect on the mechanics of trust, and sometimes mistrust, in everyday interactions involving Jews. “Highly readable and compelling, this volume marks a broadly significant contribution to Jewish studies through the underexplored dynamic of trust.” —Rebekah Klein-Pejšová, author of Mapping Jewish Loyalties in Interwar Slovakia “An exemplary compendium on how to engage with a major concept—trust—while providing load of gripping new information, new theorization of otherwise well-covered material, and meticulous attention to textual and sociological sources.” —Gil Anidjar, author of Blood: A Critique of Christianity
A Jew in the Public Arena
A Jew in the Public Arena - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Jew in the Public Arena write by Meri-Jane Rochelson. This book was released on 2008. A Jew in the Public Arena available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the fascinating and controversial career of Israel Zangwillauthor, journalist, feminist, Zionist, and the first Jewish celebrity of the twentieth century.
Songs of Many Days
Songs of Many Days - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Songs of Many Days write by Nina Salaman. This book was released on 1923. Songs of Many Days available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Christian and Jewish Women in Britain, 1880-1940
Christian and Jewish Women in Britain, 1880-1940 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christian and Jewish Women in Britain, 1880-1940 write by Anne Summers. This book was released on 2016-12-21. Christian and Jewish Women in Britain, 1880-1940 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers an entirely new contribution to the history of multiculturalism in Britain, 1880-1940. It shows how friendship and co-operation between Christian and Jewish women changed lives and, as the Second World War approached, actually saved them. The networks and relationships explored include the thousand-plus women from every district in Manchester who combined to send a letter of sympathy to the Frenchwoman at the heart of the Dreyfus Affair; the religious leagues for women’s suffrage who initiated the first interfaith campaigning movement in British history; the collaborations, often problematic, on refugee relief in the 1930s; the close ties between the founder of Liberal Judaism in Britain, and the wife of the leader of the Labour Party, between the wealthy leader of the Zionist women’s movement and a passionate socialist woman MP. A great variety of sources are thoughtfully interrogated, and concluding remarks address some of the social concerns of the present century.
